Kitty Kielland
Kitty Lange Kielland | |
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Léon Pelouse[1] |
Kitty Lange Kielland (8 October 1843 – 1 October 1914)[2] was a Norwegian landscape painter.[1]
Early life and training
Kielland was born to an affluent family in Stavanger, the older sister of Alexander Kielland.[2][1] Kielland's interactions with her brother were important in her development as an artist.[1] Although she received some training in drawing and painting, it was not until she turned thirty that she was allowed to train as a professional artist.[2][1] In 1873 she traveled to Karlsruhe where she was trained by Hans Gude.[2][1] As a woman Kielland was forced to take private lessons from Gude instead of joining his landscape painting class. Gude's adherence to realism left a lasting impression on Kielland that was visible in her later works.[1] Kielland made rapid progress during the two years she spent training with Gude.[2]
Munich
Kielland left Karlsruhe for
Jæren
In 1876, Kielland visited Jæren in southern Norway.[2] Kielland's former teacher Hans Gude had visited Jæren in 1869 and 1872 and upon his return had suggested to her that she should travel there and paint it.[3]
Kielland prepared studies while she was in Jæren and later used these to paint the characteristically flat landscape when she returned to Munich, making her the first artist to do so. Her painting of Jæren shows a realistic depiction of the landscape, but with unifying atmospheric effects.
Paris
In 1879, Kielland moved to Paris, where she shared a studio with fellow Norwegian Harriet Backer from 1880-88.[5] In Paris, she exhibited her paintings for the first time.[1] Kielland was briefly a pupil of the landscape painter Léon Germain Pelouse who lived in nearby Cernay-la-Ville. She left Paris in 1889, a portrait of her painted by Anna Ancher shortly before her departure can be found in Anchers Hus.[1]
Later life and death
Kielland worked on simplifying her art in the 1890s under the influence of
Kielland painted little towards the end of her life.
A street in Bærum, a suburb west of Oslo, is named for her.
Selected works
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Kystlandskap, 1878
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Paris apartment, 1881
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Interior, 1883
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Efter solnedgang, 1885
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Peat Bogs on Jæren, 1882[4]
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Tourbière à Jæren, 1897
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Blått interiør
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Kielland-Fra Jæren 1878
References
- ^ Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Kitty (Lange) Kielland". The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc. 2003.
- ^ Haverkamp, Frode. Hans Fredrik Gude: From National Romanticism to Realism in Landscape (in Norwegian). trans. Joan Fuglesang.
- ^ Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ISBN 9788711451458
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 1 August 2018.